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NASB | 1 John 2:22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 John 2:22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed)? This is the antichrist [the enemy and antagonist of Christ], the one who denies and consistently refuses to acknowledge the Father and the Son. |
Bible Question:
My question is concerning the following verse 1 John 2:22 Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. In a Bible study group last night, the discussion came up concerning "the antichrist" in this verse. One person said it cannot be speaking of the Antichrist, because it is not captialized, and is referring to a little antichrist. Another person said it does refer to the Antichrist, because of the article "the" before "antichrist" is singular - "the antichrist" In Spiros Zodhiates exegetical commentary on 1 John, he capitalizes the word "Antichrist" in this verse. Can anyone shed any light on whether or not this refers to the Antichrist, or a antichrist? |
Bible Answer: Both ideas are correct. The Antichrist will enforce a doctrine and belief system that He is God and God and Christ are not. The Antichrist will enforce a doctrine that Christ was not Divine. That Christ was not God in the flesh. It will get bad enough that one must recieve a mark to confess to the world that he has denounced his belief in Christ. This would be I suppose an anti-baptism in the Antichrist. This teaching is satan inspired, the Antichrist being a body satan uses when he is cast down to earth after the rapture of the saints. The teaching that Christ is not Divine and not God in the flesh was being presented when John wrote and so John says even now there are many antichrists. He was not trying to teach that the prophecy did not mean a Man would come that would be an Antichrist as Daniel said. John knew they all knew that prophecy. John was just saying that anyone that teaches the same thing that the Antichrist will teach is of the same spirit of the antichrist which is the devil and the powers of darkness. So anyone who tells you that Jesus is not God in the Flesh is of the antichrist. This would include most cults. |
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